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Prevailing myths of the Vietnam War
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| May 1, 2000
| Tony Snow
Posted on 01/31/2004 11:41:34 AM PST by William McKinley
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To: expat_panama
I think it is clear that Snow totally forgot the Civil War in making that line. :-)
To: William McKinley
So your point is that you are incapable of communicating a point? LOL.....
(McKinley's daughter?)
Enjoy reading post# 18,........18 is a 'Great Post'....!!
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posted on
01/31/2004 12:10:33 PM PST
by
maestro
To: maestro
Yes, 18 is a great post, and I don't find much in it I disagree with.
And I still have no clue as to what you are talking about in any of your posts on this thread, nor do I have any clue what you are going off about "McKinely's daughter" about, nor do I have any idea why you were insulting a vet earlier on this thread.
Is it your intention to come across as an ass?
To: maestro
Your# 18 ........'Great Post'......You are kind. But a truly great post is one that you print out and tape on the wall-- like I am doing with your post #20. ;-)
To: William McKinley
Perhaps it is moreso on this board but I know Kerry sets off old outrage in me.
There were also a lot of groups promoting the overthrow of the government,led by criminals more than idealists.They blew up a few buildings,robbed banks,people died.Communist infiltration.Flower children
Then there were the plain old hedonists!Hedonism was a religion..If it feels good do it!Clinton?
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posted on
01/31/2004 12:17:32 PM PST
by
MEG33
(God bless our armed forces)
To: William McKinley
Sorry,.......
[see above]
.....I went to Vietnam when I was 18. I only wish I knew at the time why I was there. It would have given some meaning to it all. Exactly, of what 'value' is a 'Worldview'...?
(NEA public education)
Sorry,......lunch is served,.....see ya,....'later'.
Thanks for posting this thread!
(USA....'All-around-protection'.....forever!)
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posted on
01/31/2004 12:17:50 PM PST
by
maestro
To: expat_panama
I am making numerous copies of #20 to line the walls of my CPU.......in the event it takes a crap and I need to clean it up.
Who needs the old Sears Catalog!
To: maestro
OK. Enjoy your lunch. Maybe you can actually make coherent points when you come back.
To: William McKinley
Thanks.
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posted on
01/31/2004 12:23:20 PM PST
by
maestro
To: expat_panama
But we did defend there for the better part of two decades and Snow overlooks the biggest myth-- the idea that our efforts were wasted. They weren't because our goal was (or was supposed to have been) containment, not conquest. We contained communism (or at least slowed it down a lot) enough for Reagan to finish it off in the '80's. I'd call it a successful Fabian defense.I've tried to make this point to people for decades. All the men we lost were lost in a cause just as important as WWII. Communism made the Nazis look like amateurs when it came to slaughtering people. They saved us from decades of a new Dark Ages.
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posted on
01/31/2004 12:23:38 PM PST
by
mikegi
To: maestro
You're welcome! Thorzine can be hell on an empty stomach, my crazy aunt tells me.
To: onedoug
I am more of a "start looking forward by first looking back" kind of a guy.
To: William McKinley
bump
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posted on
01/31/2004 12:26:02 PM PST
by
Tribune7
(Vote Toomey April 27)
To: William McKinley
You're welcome! Thorzine can be hell on an empty stomach, my crazy aunt tells me. ROTFLOL.........
Prozik...............is the 'high' of the 21st Century?
LOL
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posted on
01/31/2004 12:29:23 PM PST
by
maestro
To: William McKinley
As far as giving Veterans their due, I was unemployed in 1980 but was trying to get into civil service. I was not allowed to use my VA preference because I had over two years of college, at the same time Jimmy Carter was allowing the maggots to come back from Canada and they had federal jobs waiting on them if they came back.
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posted on
01/31/2004 12:32:31 PM PST
by
U S Army EOD
(Volunteer for EOD and you will never have to worry about getting wounded.)
To: mikegi
I don't know what anyone is trying to say, aside from insulting each other. I spent 27 months there between 1965 - 1968 with MACV and the 25 DIV, as enlisted scum, 11B, and I thought we should have been there.
Americas last great burst of altruism.
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posted on
01/31/2004 12:33:20 PM PST
by
Little Bill
(I can't take another rat in the White House at my age.)
To: Little Bill
Good for you. To bad we didn't have another 300,000 troops just like you.
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posted on
01/31/2004 12:38:40 PM PST
by
U S Army EOD
(Volunteer for EOD and you will never have to worry about getting wounded.)
To: mikegi
Communism made the Nazis look like amateurs You and me and a bunch here know that but it's amazing how most people don't -- especially the dems and the press. Stalin killed so many more people than Hitler did, and when the last Stalinist- Gorby - called it quits, they gave HIM the friggin' Nobel prize. Maybe Carter is in good company, but if Nobel was alive today he'd be spinning in his grave.
To: U S Army EOD
It was just something you did, no special thanks needed, we were in a war. All of my friends served alott of them a couple of tours, my dad and uncles served, goes back a long time.
Most of them came back no worse for weare and sit at the end of the bar at the VFW swapping lies along with the rest of the old guys as my Grandfathers generation did.
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posted on
01/31/2004 1:01:44 PM PST
by
Little Bill
(I can't take another rat in the White House at my age.)
To: joesnuffy
If you are teen aged and conservative...you have no heart If you are middle aged and liberal...you have no brain You know, I'm finding that to be partially untrue, in my opinion the liberal hart is too shriveled by all it's bleeding.
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